Data Engineering Contracts in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 186 234
Rank change year-on-year -11 +48 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 427 688 853
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.17% 1.40% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.55% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 464 581
10th Percentile £384 £453 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £700
90th Percentile £750 £809 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 4
10th Percentile £30.37 £19.00 £34.89
25th Percentile £33.13 £34.25 £48.78
Median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +27.12% +53.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £78.00 £71.29
90th Percentile - £90.00 £83.06
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -52.05% +29.20% +80.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -23 261 £585 -10.00% 205
North of England +27 47 £550 - 44
Midlands +45 42 £567 +4.91% 28
South East -12 39 £550 +4.76% 33
North West +24 26 £510 -7.27% 27
West Midlands +23 26 £642 +18.87% 23
Yorkshire +26 20 £605 +5.22% 8
East Midlands +36 16 £550 -4.35% 5
South West -2 9 £491 -26.82% 26
East of England +6 6 £575 +17.95% 13
North East +11 1 £431 -28.17% 9
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (11.94%) Apache Spark
2 39 (9.13%) Apache
3 33 (7.73%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.41%) Confluence
4 6 (1.41%) Tornado
5 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.47%) Sketch
3 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (40.75%) Azure
2 138 (32.32%) AWS
3 64 (14.99%) GCP
4 62 (14.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 57 (13.35%) Power Platform
6 46 (10.77%) Serverless
7 41 (9.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 38 (8.90%) Snowflake
9 28 (6.56%) Amazon S3
10 23 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (4.45%) Azure Functions
13 18 (4.22%) dbt
14 17 (3.98%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.04%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (3.04%) GitHub
17 12 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
19 10 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.98%) Network Security
2 16 (3.75%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.51%) Intrusion Detection
4 14 (3.28%) SAN
5 5 (1.17%) FTP
6 2 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.47%) DHCP
6 2 (0.47%) DNS
6 2 (0.47%) HTTP
6 2 (0.47%) OSPF
6 2 (0.47%) SNMP
7 1 (0.23%) AMQP
7 1 (0.23%) DMZ
7 1 (0.23%) Firewall
7 1 (0.23%) Modbus
7 1 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (23.65%) Data Warehouse
2 84 (19.67%) Data Lake
3 73 (17.10%) Big Data
4 57 (13.35%) Power BI
5 31 (7.26%) SQL Server
6 29 (6.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 23 (5.39%) BigQuery
8 22 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (4.92%) Flink
10 19 (4.45%) Delta Lake
10 19 (4.45%) Tableau
11 18 (4.22%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (3.98%) NoSQL
13 16 (3.75%) Metadata
13 16 (3.75%) Spark SQL
14 15 (3.51%) Hadoop
15 14 (3.28%) Relational Database
16 11 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 9 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 7 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (6.32%) JIRA
2 25 (5.85%) Git
3 5 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.47%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.47%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.23%) Deequ
6 1 (0.23%) MLflow
6 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 85 (19.91%) Social Skills
2 73 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (15.69%) Finance
4 38 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.15%) Banking
6 19 (4.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (3.28%) Marketing
7 14 (3.28%) Retail
8 10 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.94%) Front Office
10 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.94%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.70%) Advertising
11 3 (0.70%) Back Office
11 3 (0.70%) Electronics
11 3 (0.70%) Law
12 2 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 213 (49.88%) Data Engineer
2 56 (13.11%) Developer
3 50 (11.71%) Azure Engineer
4 45 (10.54%) Senior
5 43 (10.07%) Lead
6 39 (9.13%) Azure Data Engineer
7 33 (7.73%) Python Developer
8 31 (7.26%) Senior Data Engineer
9 29 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (5.62%) Architect
10 24 (5.62%) AWS Data Engineer
11 21 (4.92%) Analyst
12 20 (4.68%) Lead Data Engineer
13 19 (4.45%) Data Architect
14 15 (3.51%) Consultant
15 12 (2.81%) Python Engineer
16 11 (2.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 9 (2.11%) Data Manager
18 8 (1.87%) Data Analyst
18 8 (1.87%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.46%) PySpark
2 47 (11.01%) Kafka
3 19 (4.45%) Apache NiFi
4 13 (3.04%) FastAPI
5 12 (2.81%) Flask
5 12 (2.81%) XML
6 11 (2.58%) React
7 10 (2.34%) .NET
7 10 (2.34%) Node.js
7 10 (2.34%) Pandas
8 9 (2.11%) JSON
8 9 (2.11%) RESTful
9 8 (1.87%) pytest
10 6 (1.41%) Bokeh
10 6 (1.41%) Django
10 6 (1.41%) OAuth
10 6 (1.41%) OAuth2
10 6 (1.41%) PyTorch
11 5 (1.17%) Hugging Face
11 5 (1.17%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.51%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (3.51%) Distributed Applications
2 13 (3.04%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.81%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.58%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.87%) Algorithms
5 8 (1.87%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.17%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.17%) Smart Meter
7 4 (0.94%) FMCG
7 4 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.70%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.70%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.70%) Market Risk
8 3 (0.70%) NHS
8 3 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (0.70%) Solar Panel
9 2 (0.47%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.26%) Linux
2 18 (4.22%) Windows
3 16 (3.75%) Unix
4 14 (3.28%) Debian
4 14 (3.28%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.04%) Android
5 13 (3.04%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (35.36%) Analytics
2 147 (34.43%) ETL
3 141 (33.02%) Data Modelling
3 141 (33.02%) Data Pipeline
4 128 (29.98%) Agile
5 89 (20.84%) CI/CD
6 84 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
7 83 (19.44%) DevOps
8 59 (13.82%) Data Science
8 59 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (13.82%) Visualisation
9 56 (13.11%) Data Management
10 54 (12.65%) Data Governance
11 49 (11.48%) Data Integration
12 47 (11.01%) Data Analysis
13 40 (9.37%) Software Engineering
14 39 (9.13%) Data Visualisation
15 36 (8.43%) Machine Learning
16 34 (7.96%) Computer Science
17 32 (7.49%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 231 (54.10%) Python
2 222 (51.99%) SQL
3 42 (9.84%) Java
4 36 (8.43%) Scala
5 19 (4.45%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.28%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.04%) C#
7 13 (3.04%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.87%) R
10 6 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.94%) Perl
12 3 (0.70%) C++
12 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.47%) Go
13 2 (0.47%) Groovy
13 2 (0.47%) XPath
13 2 (0.47%) XQuery
14 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 97 (22.72%) Security Cleared
2 76 (17.80%) SC Cleared
3 40 (9.37%) Degree
4 26 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 22 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.47%) CCDP
8 2 (0.47%) CCNP
8 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.47%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.47%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (14.05%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.51%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.41%) GDPR
4 5 (1.17%) QA
5 3 (0.70%) IFRS
5 3 (0.70%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.70%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.47%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) GxP
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 22 (5.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.70%) HDFS
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (6.32%) Terraform
2 26 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.70%) Ansible
4 1 (0.23%) Grafana
4 1 (0.23%) Kibana
4 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.23%) Matomo
4 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 101 (23.65%) Databricks
2 53 (12.41%) Microsoft
3 27 (6.32%) Google
4 24 (5.62%) Red Hat
5 20 (4.68%) Oracle
6 18 (4.22%) Informatica
7 14 (3.28%) Talend
7 14 (3.28%) VMware
8 12 (2.81%) SAP
9 10 (2.34%) Foundry
9 10 (2.34%) Palantir
10 7 (1.64%) Ab Initio
11 5 (1.17%) Confluent
12 4 (0.94%) IBM
13 3 (0.70%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.47%) Arista
14 2 (0.47%) Cadence
14 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.47%) SnapLogic
14 2 (0.47%) Zscaler